Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions / / edited by Cristina Motta, Macarena Saez

• Pubblicazione: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2013.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1
• Soggetto topico: Private international law; Conflict of laws; Families; Families—Social aspects; Constitutional law; Law—Philosophy; Law; Law—Europe; Public international law; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law; Family; Constitutional Law; Fundamentals of Law; European Law; Public International Law
• Persona (resp. second.): MottaCristina; SaezMacarena
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword; Rebecca Cook.- Acknowledgments.- Biographies.- Table of Contents.- Introduction -- 1. Citizenship; Cristina Motta -- 2. Family; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo -- 3. Health; Lidia Casas -- 4. Property; Helena Alviar -- 5. Violence; Julieta Lemaitre -- 6. Diverse sexualities; Juan Marco Vaggione -- 7. Violence based on Prejudice; Maria Mercedes Gómez.
• Sommario/riassunto: Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women’s rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region’s normative values of justice as they have evolved away from a partial, and patriarchal, exercise of the law. They show how cases with vastly differing contexts such as, property rights and domestic violence have resulted in a mixed body of Latin American law. Some decisions are protective of women’s and minority rights. Some assess the wider social impacts of case law in which recognition of the discrete legal identities within households challenges established precepts, including religious ones. Other cases have been chosen as cautionary examples of bad decision-making and for the poverty of their legal debate. Updated to include the latest relevant jurisprudence from across the continent, this book is an informed, cohesive and comprehensive guide to understanding women’s and gender-based rights in Latin America.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions
• ISBN: 94-007-6199-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910733719203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, . 1534-6781 ; ; 24